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Lynne Cooke at The Burlington Magazine: Visionaries are fundamental to the avant-gardes that appeared in Europe in the inter-war years. Few, however, were as prescient, pragmatic and tactical as Sonia
Continue readingHow Sonia Delaunay Paved the Way for Wearable Art as We Know it
by Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: It’s quiet here in the early morning and no one’s around—just the way I like it. I’m sitting on a bench, sipping black coffee
Continue readingErik Rittenberry: You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture
If a slot machine is a one-armed bandit,what does that make you? A cyclopeantroll? I don’t think it will catch on.Maybe there’s nothing poetic about you.A friend’s mother died the other day,and it
By Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: We humans are highly visual creatures, but our skin has a sophisticated built-in system that lets us grab a cup of coffee, peel an
Continue readingHuman-Like ‘Bio-Skin’ Gives Robots a Much More Nuanced Sense of Touch
Roger Luckhurst at Aeon: In 2016, Elon Musk launched Neuralink with the aim of manufacturing an electronic implant in the brain that could link it directly to the computer network.
Samuel Kimbriel at Wisdom of Crowds: This week, I’ve been re-reading Better Never to Have Been, a book by the South African Philosopher, David Benatar.The book begins with the following
Liz Wolfe at Reason: President Joe Biden has proposed a ceasefire plan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not yet on board. The key plank in dispute: how much of
Jo Lauder at ABC News (of Australia): Whether you drive an electric car or are considering making the switch, you’ve probably been drawn into a discussion about whether they are
William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Will Selber at The Bulwark: Ever since the “Stop the Steal” campaign in the aftermath of the 2020 election, the relentless barrage of election lies
Continue readingDinesh D’Souza’s Movie ‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, But Still Lodged in Grandma’s Brain
A poet who I respect told me the other night thatmy stuff wasn’t really poetry because: A.) There were too many jokes,B.) I didn’t slice enough arteries,andC.) It was… Gork.
Yuxin Zhou at The Conversation: While Greenland is losing huge volumes of ice right now – worryingly comparable to a midrange Heinrich event – the ice loss will likely not
Continue readingAtlantic Ocean Current Might Not Shut Down So Soon
Ronald Sievert at The Conversation: The facts and the law behind New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s successful prosecution of Donald Trump could be argued at length. But as a
Continue readingYes, Donald Trump Has a Point About Political Prosecution